NC, Lenoir, Document Collections, JACOB WEST COLLECTION ================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by Martha M. Marble mmarble@erols.com copyright 2000 ================================================================= JACOB WEST COLLECTION - Private Collection #1237.1 located at the North Carolina Archives, Raleigh, NC NOTE: For the most part, the documents in this Collection are for the West family in Craven Co, on Moseley's Creek and are not included with a few exceptions. SURVEY FOR RICHARD BLACKLEDGE 4th ? September 1774 - Craven Co - Survey for RICHARD BLACKLEDGE - 450 acres - Moseley Creek - WS Creek, adj LEVI TREWHIT, LOVICK, GILSTRAP, RICH. CARLTON, RICH. BLACKLEDGE Rigston Brill, Surveyor CB PHILIP GILSTRAP, WM PHILLIPS END OF DOCUMENT SURVEY FOR SOLOMON SMITH 29 December 1735 - Craven County - Survey for SOLOMON SMITH - SS Neuse adj JOHN LOVICK - 530 acres JNO POWELL, Surv END OF DOCUMENT PLATT This appears to be from a Court Case - Craven County - 18 April 1836 - JOSEPH RHEM is plt and LEWIS WHITE is def - boundary dispute - survey of above property taken by JESSE NOBLE - on the platt it says WM RUSSELL'S patent of 640 acres on 13 October 1772, WM COX'S 600 acres patent on 15 Oct 1793 - CHRISTOPHER HEATH'S Patent - no date END OF DOCUMENT INDENTURE - JACOB WEST TO GEORGE W. WEST 10 March 1846 - JACOB WEST of Lenoir to GEORGE W. WEST of Craven - $262.50 - land in Craven known as Dover Plantation and inherited from the estate of JOSEPH RHEM, dec WIT K. T. WEST, BURWELL MOORE Dec Term Craven Co 1847 on oath of KENION T. WEST Registered Craven Co Book 58, folio 461 Stephen B. Parker, Reg END OF DOCUMENT INDENTURE - SARAH DAVIS TO JACOB WEST 12 April 1852 - Lenoir Co - I SARAH DAVIS to JACOB WEST of Lenoir - $70 - land which fell to my deceased husband FRED. WEST ? in the division of estate of the late JOSEPH RHEM dec of Craven Co - lying in Craven Co on Moseley's Creek Signed SARAH E. DAVIS WIT JOSHUA F. NEALE, JOHN T. W. PEARSON To Craven Co Court June Term 1852 on oath of JOSHUA NEALE J. Stanley, Clk END OF DOCUMENT INDENTURE - JACOB WEST TO GEORGE W. WEST 15 June 1852 - JACOB WEST of Lenoir Co to GEORGE W. WEST of Craven - $66 - all his rights to estate of JOSEPH RHEM, dec - whether the said interest has been acquired by descent from sd JOSEPH RHEM or from DANIEL WEST by purchase from SARAH WEST WIT WM H. WASHINGTON END OF DOCUMENT CONFEDERATE BOND 15 August 1864 - GEORGE W. WEST of Lenoir, S. C. LOFTIN of Lenoir and R. W. KING bound to Confederate States in the penal sum of $3,134 GEORGE W. WEST applied for details of himself as an Agriculturalist - has 6 able bodied slaves between 16 and 50 - to deliver 330 pounds of Bacon, 300 pounds of Beef END OF DOCUMENT A copy of the West Bible is included and can be found under Bible Records.